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Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects (open access)

Economic Impact in the U.S. of Deepwater Projects: A Survey of Five Projects

This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Stiff, John J. & Singelmann, Joachim
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Oil and Gas Structure Installation and Removal Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico:  A Decision- and Resource-Based Approach (open access)

Long-Term Oil and Gas Structure Installation and Removal Forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico: A Decision- and Resource-Based Approach

This report is to formalize the REA/MMS forecast models used in the Gulf Coast. With these models they forecast GOM infrastructure like number of exploratory wells and number of development wells.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Kaiser, Mark J.; Mesyanzhinov, Dmitry V. & Pulsipher, Allan G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico (open access)

Strong Mid-Depth Currents and a Deep Cyclonic Gyre in the Gulf of Mexico

This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Sturges, Wilton; Chassignet, Eric & Ezer, Tal
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Car-Coupling. (open access)

Car-Coupling.

Patent for an invention for train cars which "relates to car couplings, and especially to that class of the same which effect an automatic coupling by means of a gravity-hook," (lines 12-15) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 13, 1884
Creator: Washburn, Andrew Lynch & Journeay, Abram L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History